There are uncomfortable and unexpected truths squirrelled away in the simplest annotative tasks in Autodesk Civil 3D. Model-based software means some basic tasks are fundamentally different and more complex for seemingly no apparent reason. There is a reason as we shall see.
Indeed, some planned and managed complexity can provide us with more bang for the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 10, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, parcel, alignment, offset alignment, publish on demand, iPOD, site parcel, site
Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Let’s call this the lust for One and Done. For surveyors this may mean Point data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files and COGO points to better manage your…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 05, 2020
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style, Style Management, parcel, alignment, offset alignment, widening, publish on demand, iPOD
We all have things we want changed in Civil 3D. If you live and work in Civil 3D Land, you probably have more than a few Civil 3D Wish List items. I do. You do too. Some of those whines and moans are related to things Civil 3D cannot do yet. Others to the stuff Civil 3D cannot do very well from our perspective.
How we choose to work habitually matters significantly…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 11, 2020
Tags Civil 3D, Groundforce, alignment, offset alignment, profile, offset profile, superelevation, feature line, optionality, optimization, surface, grading
Maybe you noticed that Autodesk puts some effort into improving Corridor design publication performance in the latest Civil 3D 2019.1 Update. The new enhancement capability to share Sample Line Groups as Data Shortcuts in projects comes to mind.
We can probably also agree that Civil 3D plan annotation of corridor models still needs serious work. Then again, sometimes we…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 23, 2018
Tags corridors, point group, Toolbox Reports, spreadsheet, alignment, offset alignment, video, iPOD
Inside Civil 3D Autodesk uses the common names and terms for civil engineering and survey stuff. However, Civil 3D Features (collected programming objects that work together) can and do behave quite differently from old school CAD objects. We all stumble over this Civil 3D reality a bit.
Last time we talked about Civil 3D’s outwardly convoluted mechanics of Point…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 05, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, alignment, offset alignment, offset profile, superelevation, video